TV PRESENTER and writer Anna Richardson admits she has always had a love-love relationship with food and constantly struggles with her weight. And sharing her life with Great British Bake Off star Sue Perkins doesn’t help. “I used to visit the Bake Off set all the time and you could map Sue’s weight and mine by the series.
It’s easy to put on a stone with all those amazing cakes – as soon as the filming had finished everyone would descend on them like locusts.” But seeing her father, Canon Jim Richardson, cope with the legacy of a stroke has given Anna a new determination to stay as fi t... read more

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